The President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Bannon have consolidated their influence.
These activities have been opposed by the well-organized environmental movement, which consolidated its influence in political affairs during the 1970s and '80s.
After the 2008 financial crisis, there are fewer such firms, and they have consolidated their influence and power over our capital markets.
For now, Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda's nominal leader, still holds the broad influence that he has consolidated since Osama bin Laden's death last year.
But the studio system was fragmenting and it was his dynamic energy and diplomatic skills that kept them together and consolidated their influence; it was a feat that increased the professional stature of the diminutive Valenti (he was just 5ft 4in).
The counts of Barcelona consolidated their influence over Catalonia in the 10th and 11th centuries, and, after the union of Catalonia and Aragon in 1137, Barcelona grew into a major trading city.
With this wealth they built a huge, frescoed palace in Naples and consolidated their influence in the region: Belmonte wine filled the cellars of Madrid when Carlo III of Naples became King of Spain.
As the region's two most powerful Sunni nations, Saudi Arabia and Egypt view the rise of the Houthis with alarm, seeing them as a new geopolitical triumph by non-Arab Iran after it consolidated its influence in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
Today there were reports that Iran is working to consolidate influence with a local ruler in the city of Herat by sending aid shipments, which may include weapons.
She gets how mainstream authority in America impels markets, the state, the elite, the media and religious groups to consolidate influence and keep the opposition in check.
